Churn.



No. 758,737. PATENTED MAY 3, 1904.

w. A. (moss.

GHURN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 31, 1903.

30 MODEL.

Witnesses' Inventor (El AMY da p big/ 4) (A) 525, TVL. 5.73M. 1 Ln,

Attorney Patented May 3, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WVILLIAM A. CROSS, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO NELSON H. GOOD, OF TRENTON, OHIO.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION arming part of Letters Patent No. 758,737, dated May 3, 1904.

Application filed August 31, 1903.

T0 roll ur/wnt it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. Onoss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, (post-office address Dayton, Ohio,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ohurns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, pertaining to improvements in churns, will be readily understood from the following description,taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation, part vertical section, of my improved churn; and Fig. 2, a side elevation. I

In the drawings, 1 indicates a gallows-frame; 2, a horizontal pivot supported thereby; 3, a horizontal lever mounted on said pivot; at, handles at the opposite extremity of the lever; 5, horizontal pivots carried by the lever at each side of pivot 2; 6, suspension-links hanging from these pivots; 7, the churn-body, pivotally suspended from the lower ends of the links, the churn-body having preferably, but not necessarily, the form of a horizontal cylinder or barrel with its axis horizontal; 8, a top opening in the churn-body to give access to its interior, and 9 a plugged drainopening in the lower portion of the churnbody.

The motions of the churn-body and the relative movements of the cream within it are very peculiar. If the lever 3 be oscillated with deliberation, then the links 6 hang at all times vertical, and the churn-body has a tipping but very slight endwise motion. If, however, the lever be oscillated with considerable vigor or speed, then after the motions have gotten well started the links no longer remain vertical, but take on a violent swinging motion, the churn-body then acting as a pendulum swinging from two points and tipping as it swings. hen the churn-body reaches one extremity of its swinging motion,it of its own accord seeks to return to such position that the links will hang vertically, and in doing this it first carries the links past the vertical.

The consequence of this is not only that the Serial No. 171,344. (No model.)

churn-body and its contents are given violent tumbling motions, but the work is done with extreme ease, very little muscular effort being required to keep up the tipping and pendulous motion of the churn-body after it has once been started. The churning results of this system, as regards ease of working and quickness and perfection of results, have proven highly satisfactory in practice.

The gallows-frame 1 will be found a very satisfactory form of structure for support of the pivot 2; but it is obvious that all that is needed is some stable support for that pivot regardless of whether such support be gotten by means of this gallows-frame or otherwise.

This machine has also been employed in practice as a washing-machine and with highlysatisfactory results as to ease of working and perfection of accomplishment. My machine has been devised primarily as a churn, and I call it a "churn; but in my claims I have in view the machine itself and not the specific purpose for which it may be employed.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, substantially as set forth, of a rigidly-supported pivot, a horizontal lever mounted for oscillation on said pivot and provided with a handle, pivots carried by the lever at each side of the firstmentioned pivot, links suspended from the last-mentioned pivots, and a receptacle pivotallyunited to the lower ends of the two links.

2. The combination, substantially as set forth, of a rigidly-supported pivot, a horizontal lever mounted for oscillation on said pivot and provided with a handle, pivots carried by the lever at each side of the firstmentioned pivot, links suspended from the last-mentioned pivots, a receptacle pivotally united to the lower ends of the two links, and a gallows-frame for the support of the firstmentioned pivot.

WILLIAM A. GROSS.

Witnesses:

ELMER R. SHIPLEY, M. S. BELD'EN. 

